I wrote to the Director of Consumer Affairs about this in light of a recent
directive mandating unit pricing. They wrote back to confirm that pricing by
the square yard or the lb (some butchers still do it) does not fulfill the
requirements (use of imperial is permitted only if metric pricing is given
too). I intend formally complaining to the ODCA after checking with local
carpet shops. The problem, of course, is that price per square yard looks
cheaper.
Here in the USA we now see carpeting and hardwood flooring priced by the square foot. Immediately everything looks really cheap -- nine times cheaper, in fact. In reality, of course, nine times the square foot price is a fair bit more than the old square yard price was. Hard to play those games with metric.
Carleton
